#58bThe United States
Through Its Planetary CyclesPart II 1896 to Present
December 12, 2004

Introduction
Part II is the second and final section of this Forecast interpreting the U.S. chart via its planetary cycles. It interprets the second set of cycles that began in 1896 and continue through the present. Included from Part I for reference are the U.S. chart with its planetary cycles listing and the summary on planetary behaviors.

Planet

Rahu

Jupiter

Saturn

Mercury

Ketu

Venus

Sun

Moon

Mars

Rahu

Jupiter

Saturn

Mercury

Ketu

Venus

Sun

Moon

Mars

Begin

1776

1793

1809

1828

1845

1852

1872

1878

1888 - 1895

1895

1913

1929

1948

1965

1972

1992

1998

2008 - 2015

No. Years

17

16

19

17

7

20

6

10

7

18

16

19

17

7

20

6

10

7

Summary Of How The Planets Behave In The U.S. Chart

With all nine planets having run their cycles, how each behaves in the U.S. chart has been demonstrated. Here's a summary for each:

Rahu Turmoil and change; fear of and rebellion against overbearing authority; creating a democratic secular government and free market; mystical beliefs seen as protective; inventions; sexual neurosis

Rahu's second planetary cycle begins the second set of America's planetary cycles. Rahu's behavior
was interpreted in its first cycle from 1776 through 1893. This second cycle repeats the energies, though
of course, not the same events.

As the nation created itself via a freeing democracy and capitalism during the first Rahu cycle, it recreated itself during its second cycle, known as the Progressive Era. Reacting to the robber barons' abuse of power,
government corruption and class warfare protests and the continuing depression, William McKinley won the tumultuous 1896 election by assembling a coalition of new industrialists and their workers, promising a full dinner pail and rejecting moralistic crusades of earlier Republicans. (Note: Except for Democrat Grover Cleveland, who was as reactionary as Republicans, McKinley's election ended the conservative
Repub- lican's twenty-eight year reign of greed and corruption that began with Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.)

Progressives were a post Civil War generation. Raised in cities with the new social and physical sciences (including Darwinism) and mass media, they did not share their parents' Victorian-inspired religious fervor. Progressive modernists, were inclined to reject institutionalized restrictions and to support individual freedoms.

Progressivism revitalized democracy by redressing Gilded Age excesses and political corruption. This was basically class warfare, similar to the first Rahu cycle's revolutionary's fight against the English colonial class system. (Unfortunately, with Jim Crow laws having formalized restrictions against Blacks, redress here would not occur until much later in the nation's history.) The Progressive Movement increased federal
pow- er and ended Laissez Faire's
absence of regulation.

Teddy Roosevelt began enforcing the Sherman anti-trust act for its true purpose, earning him the nickname, Trust-buster. Roosevelt also pushed through legislation requiring pure food and drugs, railroad rate regulations and the conservation of natural resources.

In his 1903 Square Deal speech,
Roosevelt concluded by saying, The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. The second Progressive era presidency, William Taft was less effective than Roosevelt but continued to break up trusts and empower the court system.

The Progressive Movements' regaining democratic freedoms and equality lost during the Gilded Age is the
second example of how, Imbalances and inequality among groups stimulate conflicts to reintegrate the culture along shared democratic values.

There is another thread to this Rahu cycle, relating to its signification for foreigners. Early in the cycle, America was thrust into following the Europeans' colonial expansion by the short 1898 Spanish/American war. During William McKinley's term from 1897 to 1901, America developed an innovative approach to compete with the Europeans and to gain needed international trade. As a democracy, America was a reluctant colonial master. The Rahu cycle's emphasis was not on building an empire but upon expanding trade through the concept of spheres of influence, an expansion abroad of Manifest Destiny. This
re- quired control only of scattered territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. These are listed above. The Open Door Policy was an attempt to keep the China trade open, in part by denying imperial Europeans the change to carve up the giant.

As Rahu is science, it is natural that Einstein's Theory of Relatively came during its cycle. The Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 also fits this cycle, for Rahu is specifically airplanes.

(Rahu's next cycle will run from 2016 to 2034...)

Jupiter 1914 -- 1929 16 years

Woodrow Wilson 1913 - 1921 (D)

Warren G. Harding 1921 - 1923 (R)

Calvin Coolidge 1923 - 1929 (R)

1914 Panama Canal opens

1917 -19 World War I

1920 Amendment 18 -- women get vote

1920 Amendment 19 -- Prohibition

1920 First radio broadcast

1921 Emergency Quota Act - limits immigration

1925 Scopes trial on teaching evolution

1927 Lindbergh transatlantic flight

Woodrow Wilson's presidency is reminiscent of the first three Presidents under the initial Jupiter cycle. He was the last of the three Progressive Presidents and also the first modern Democrat. Wilson lowered tariffs, reformed the currency, and toughened the trust laws yet again. Wilson then carried progressive ideals into World War I, seeing it as a fight for democracy. Keeping with nation's Saturnian distrust of foreign entanglements, Wilson had to lobby hard and long to dissuade America from maintaining its isolationism from world affairs. Wilson also presided over the eighteenth Amendment giving women suffrage and the
nine- teenth Amendment prohibiting alcohol, again in tune with Jupiter's fairness and morality.

The twenties, of course, saw tremendous economic development during the Republican administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Prosperity following war was analyzed in the first Jupiter cycle narrative. Economic growth, women's suffrage, a consumer economy and mass entertainment also furthered expansion in personal freedoms and a rejection by many of Victorian values that had been firmly embedded in America culture via conservative Protestant religions.

Yet, this was neither an even nor nationwide trend. The first sixteen year Jupiter cycle signaled the Second Great Awakening's religious revival. This second Jupiter cycle reinvigorated conservative religious beliefs by promising to protect Americans from Darwinism, cultural decadence, the Red Scare (immoral communists) and the racial violence resulting from Blacks moving to northern cities. As these events and their conservative backlash occurred under Republican presidents, Harding and Coolidge, they hearken back to earlier Victorian conservative Republican presidents during the Victorian nineteenth century.

In this environment, two Christian revivalist movements emerged. Fundamentalism (infallibility of the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ) and
Pentecostalism (speaking in tongues and faith healers). The Scopes trial on teaching evolution was a focal point in this conflict between science and theology, faith and reason, individual liberty and majority rule. It was also a clash between urban secular sophistication and rural fundamentalism.

Note that this is the first time the term Fundamentalism is used, even though underlying mystical concepts were first employed during Jupiter's first cycle in the Evangelical Revivalism at the dawn of the nineteenth century.

Recall that these beliefs were advanced further in 1843 during William Miller's Advent, John Darby's Rapture and Victorianism in the late nineteenth century. The 1909 and 1917 Scofield Reference Bible editions explained, via interpretive notes, these religious tenets. This bible continues to be the favorite of Fundamentalist Christians. You can buy the Scofield Reference Bible today at Walmart for $31.95.

Jupiter, however, can be overly expansive, and this is made excessive by being conjunct self-indulgent and extravagant Venus. Recall that the Venus cycle saw the inception of the industrial excess culminating in the Gilded Age and accompanying government corruption. The economic expansion of the 1920's was excessive by any yardstick and could not endure.

Saturn 1930 -- 1948 19 years

Herbert Hoover 1929 - 1933 (R)

Franklin Roosevelt 1933 - 1945 (D)

Harry Truman 1945 - 1948 (D)

1929 Stock market crashes Oct 24 - 29

1933 Prohibition ends

1933 New Deal

1935 Social Security Act

1938 Fair Labor Standards Act

1941 - 45 World War II

1947 Marshall Plan

1948 NATO formed. Cold war begins

Restrictive and responsible Saturn began its cycle with the Great Depression again paringaway excess from expansive Jupiter's previous cycle.

As Saturn also serves to protect the public, to administer practicalities benefiting the masses, newly elected Franklin Roosevelt immediately announced the New Deal in 1933 to stimulate the economy. Two years later he supported the Social Security Act to give the elderly retirement insurance. The Fair Labor Standards Act established a minimum wage and set protective child labor standards. Under Harry Truman, the 1947 Marshall Plan, rebuilding war-ravaged European countries, was another application of Saturn's dutiful nature.

Saturn again stimulated infrastructure build-up. The depression era Civilian Conservation Corps
replant- ed forests and combated erosion
nationwide. The Tennessee Valley Authority restored that area's resources and brought hydroelectric power to a destitute area. The industrial war machine for World War II further developed the nation's economic base, including technical innovation.

While Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was intended to rescue America from the Great Depression, as a massive redistribution of income (from the rich to the poor), it was America's first leap into socialism. While the New Deal was the heir to the Progressive Era, that effort focused upon regulating business to protect the public. Here, then is the
third example of how, Imbalances and inequality among groups stimulate conflicts to reintegrate the culture along shared democratic values.

Because practical Saturn rules the second house of food quality, it ended Prohibition in 1933 for being unworkable and empowering organized crime in bootlegging.

By the end of Saturn's cycle in 1948, the U.S. had fulfilled it's promise, begun under the first Saturn cycle (1810 -- 1828) of becoming the world's leading industrial nation, both in output and innovation. As factory jobs would later be increasingly eliminated through automation (efficiency gains) at home and production sent overseas, a population engendered with highly skilled hands would eventually be alienated.

Mars' aspect to Saturn, which brings violence, instigated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Because Saturn is an isolationist, it took this warfare on American soil to drag the country into World War II. This influence also brought the Cold War with the USSR starting in 1948, the year Saturn ended its cycle.

Mercury 1949 -- 1965 17 years

Harry Truman 1948 - 1953 (D)

Dwight Eisenhower 1953 - 1961 (R)

John Kennedy 1961- 1963 (D)

Lyndon Johnson 1963 - 1964 (D)

1950 -- '53 Korean War

1961 -- '65 Civil Rights Movement

1965 Supreme Court orders school desegregation

1963 Vietnam war begins

1964 Great Society

As in Mercury's first planetary cycle from 1829 to 1845, it's second cycle was also a period of mental variability and creativity stimulating: discord with foreigners, turbulent economic growth,
commo- tion in Mercury's social qualities and eighth house mysticism and power.

The Cold War, the Korean War and the beginning of the Vietnam conflict mirrors the previous Mercury cycle's conflicts at the Alamo and almost continuous warfare with Native Americans.

Inventions, income and education similarly followed the Mercury cycle pattern. Again building upon Saturn's infrastructure improvements, the economy innovated and grew. From labor-saving kitchen
appli- ances to life-saving medicines, the quality of life was elevated. Television, however, was the most dramatic and lifestyle changing. Median family income more than doubled from 1947 to 1979 to $45,900 (current dollars). This cycle also saw a tremendous education elevation as family wealth propelled baby-boomers into colleges and universities Yet, again there were economic reversals . The country experienced difficult double-dip
recessions in 1957 and 1960-61 .

There was also Mercurial social commotion during its cycle. The first Mercury cycle's urbanization and westward migration became this second cycle's automobile-enabled migrations to Sunbelt cities and
expan- sion to the suburbs. These shifts were stimulated by mental Mercury's increasing white collar employment, which, for the first time, exceeded factory jobs.

Again, this more affluent and learned society addressed social issues, but in this second Mercury cycle, TV brought the world into living rooms. The first televised debate gave John Kennedy the presidency. His New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society liberalized society further with social programs, including Medicare and
Foodstamps. (Kennedy's powerful Mercury in the eighth house matches the U.S. chart.) And finally, a century after the end of slavery, the Civil Rights Movement began the process of bringing Blacks real freedom and equality. Great Society programs and the Civil Rights movement are the dual qualities of this
fourth example of how, Imbalances and inequality among groups stimulate conflicts to reintegrate the culture along shared democratic values.
We can also see this reinte- gration as a larger liberal movement to again reign in big business and its accompanying repressive
social/religious values.

Mercury with foreign Rahu in the eighth house of the occult brought the 1960s Eastern mysticism, chiefly from India, to break away from stifling Protestant and Catholic churches with their puritanical beliefs. This included breaking sexual taboos in the Sexual Revolution. Yet, the Fundamentalists, in Southern and Midwestern strongholds, stuck with their Evangelical Christianity. Further, as they had many times in the past, Evangelical Christians would arise again, for a country's underlying religious belief system, passed from generation to generation, doesn't bend to the winds of social change.

If there is one label to typify and describe Ketu's second cycle is is Counterculture. Although
initiated at the end of the Mercury cycle in 1965 by Vietnam protests, Eastern mysticism and hard rock music, it wasn't until otherworldly Ketu's began its cycle that mass culture began to truly transform. A button-down culture broke away with long hair, jeans, drugs, sex, and of course, rock & roll.

Increasingly strident Vietnam War demonstrations and the ongoing Civil Rights Movement brought a political orientation. Ketu's insight then stimulated the environmental movement and the consequent rejection of corporate America. All of these Ketu effects resulted from its quality of insight, serving to elevate
con- sciousness. This is the
fifth example of how, Imbalances and inequality among groups stimulate conflicts to reintegrate the culture along shared democratic values.

America did, however, make it to the Moon, but nothing much was found, and astronauts haven't returned. That is typical Ketu-weird.

As Ketu is placed in the second house of domestic harmony and food quality, nobody was happy at home, and drugs were ingested to achieve mystical states, to get closer to God. However, median family income did continue to grow through 1979.

(*A friend invited me to Woodstock, but I didn't want to camp out in a field with weird people for four days. I forget now what I did instead. I do recall, however, being invited to interview at IBM and feeling everyone there was a corporate clone.)

Venus 1973 -- 1992 20 years

Gerald Ford 1974 - 1977 (R)

Jimmy Carter 1977 - 1981 (D)

Ronald Reagan 1981 - 1989 (R)

George W. Bush 1989 - 1993 (R)

1973 & 1980 Arab oil embargos

1974 Nixon resigns

1975 Vietnam War ends

1975 Feminist Movement begins

1981 AIDS discovered

1989 -- '91 USSR dissolves. Cold War over

1991 First Gulf War1992 NAFTA

As Venus's first cycle from 1853 to 1872 was convoluted for this planet's strengths and afflictions, this second cycle was no less troublesome.

Recall Venus' Civil War was succeeded in abolishing slavery but failed to bring Blacks equality. This Venus cycle saw the bitter end to the Vietnam conflict, the Cold War ending only to usher in terrorism and the first Gulf War saved Kuwait but left Iraq for invasion a decade later.

Female Venus with Mars' combative energy stimulated the Feminist Movement, but there was an
atten- dant increase in divorce. Further, since this Mars is virulent, its
signification for infectious disease also brought AIDS, ending the sexual revolution.

Venus with Jupiter gives an affinity for foreigners, and this was expressed in NAFTA, the first major free trade agreement. Yet, Venus also indicates enemies (competitors) and vehicles, which is why during its cycle Japan successfully invaded the U.S. automobile market, and the two oil embargos restricted vehicle travel.

Yet, economically, Venus is a mixed influence. Inflation, stalled productivity and the Arab oil embargos stifled the first half of this long twenty year cycle. Jupiter expands Venus's creativity, and Mars indicates machinery. This resulted in fundamental electronic machine inventions during Venus's cycle. (Note:
ad- vances during the previous Mercury cycle were predominately mechanical.) Highlights are: cell phone (1979), IBM personal computer (1981), Microsoft Windows (1985), and the Internet (1990). These not only stimulated the 1980s economy, but set the stage for the great growth in the upcoming Sun cycle.

Jupiter also influences Venus for overindulgence, and Mars adds greed and criminality.

As the 1880s greedy Gilded Age's business excesses began during first Venus cycle after the Civil War, this second Venus cycle initiated a boom during the Reagan years from 1981 through 1989. Reagan's tax cuts for the wealthy and Venus's electronic advances stimulated multinational corporations, international trade, worker efficiency gains and corporate fraud. However, these also initiated a long term shift to
de- press real wages and force women into the workplace. Median family income has drifted lower ever since. (Recall median family income more than doubled during the Mercury cycle and through part of the Ketu cycle until 1979.) This was
redistribution of income in reverse -- from the poor and middle class to the rich.

Government corruption began under Nixon's administration, forcing his resignation in 1974. It continued with Reagan, but he managed to dodge the Iran-Contra
cover-up.

Sun 1993 -- 1998 6 years

Bill Clinton 1993 - 1996 (D)

1993 - 2000 Longest economic expansion

1996 Welfare reform

This cycle was dominated by Bill Clinton's two terms which brought the longest and greatest economic expansion in America's history but ended with corporate fraud, the stock market bubble and his near impeachment.

As discussed in the first Sun cycle narrative, Jupiter's influence on the Sun brings warm and supportive efforts to enrich relationships and government, inventions and wealth. Yet, Saturn's close aspect to the Sun injures these advances, stimulates conservatism and results in mistreatment. This sets up a second rapacious Moon cycle. Notable, but not fully recognized, was a resurgence in Fundamentalism, especially in the South under Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and other charismatic evangelical leaders. Using their Scofield
Refer- ence Bibles to effect, they: predict a fire and brimstone hell for sinners, demand Victorian Era puritanical values and promised Second Coming salvation exclusively to born-again believers. Everyone else --
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, even Catholics.. -- would go to hell, and this exclusionary view bound the true believers even more tightly together in their spiritual war.

The Fundamentalists' marriage to conservative Republicans was first expressed in the Newt Gringrich Republican Revolution, loudly promoted by Rush Limbaugh. After
Gingrich was disgraced, the emerging theocracy made another major foray with the impeachment attempt against Bill Clinton, which was really about sex. However, it wasn't until born-again George W. Bush identified and appealed to Fundamentalists in the 2000 election that the alliance between conservative Republicans and Evangelicals emerged in a fully formed theocratic
government. (Bush actually first discovered this powerful technique in his father's 1988 campaign, when not knowing what to do with him, the younger Bush was sent to the Fundamentalist churches and found eager and welcoming audiences.)

This alliance used its power to turn back the clock on the tide of reviled social liberalism -- initiated in the Progressive Movement (notably Teddy Roosevelt), greatly advanced under Franklin Roosevelt and expanded under the John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations. Ask staunch
moneyed Evan- gelicals, and they'll tell you, with fury in their voices, they could never forgive these liberals for ruining their Ann Rand laissez faire capitalism and making a moral
Christian nation into pagans. They especially detested the Roosevelt
cousins, whom they viewed as turncoats to their upper class families.

Below is a 1950 to 2000 graph of real gross domestic product per capita -- how much money the economy generates divided by the population. Dollars are the
vertical axis and years from 1950 to 2000 are the horizontal axis.

This demonstrates how potent the U.S. chart is for creativity and wealth. However, if one considers that median family income has been flat since 1979, one can only conclude that the income growth must be going to corporations and the wealthiest Americans who own the stocks.

The theocratic partnership between conservative Republican businessmen and puritanical Christians (increasing concentration of wealth in an elite, government corruption and decreasing in family income) is a pattern first set in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It began after the Civil War (part way through the first Venus cycle), continued through the Ketu and Sun cycles, peaked during the Moon cycle (the Gilded Age) and was stopped by popular protests and a four year recession during the Mars cycle. Then, of course, the Progressive Era during the Rahu cycle began redressing these inequities. This pattern is repeating in the last part of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century

Moon 1999 -- 2008 10 years

Bill Clinton 1996 - 2001 (D)

George W. Bush 2001 - 2004 (R)

2001 9-11 attack

2001 - '04 Tax cuts & budget deficits

2001 - '02 Afghanistan invasion

2003 -- ? Iraq war

As this historical analysis has journeyed to the present, the repetition of the planets' cycles has revealed how the the interplay of past karmas
repeats. As this final section compares the Moon's first ten year cycle
with this second (and current) cycle and offers some conclusions, it
is divided into two parts.

Comparison With The
Moon's First Cycle -- 1879 --1888
Consider first how the events and trends identified in the first Moon Cycle narrative fit with contemporary
times. Following is a synopsis of events and trends from 1879
through 1888. These all fit well, amazingly well in fact, with
what has been happening in America since 1999.

The powerful
grab what they choose, with no governmental regulation restraining their running roughshod over the populace

Public obedience in work, accepting Blue Laws and not objecting to a class system

The inception of public protests

While there is no need to restate the
obvious by reciting comparable contemporary events and trends, the
election results mystery should be addressed. As discussed in
the December 10 Celestial Wheel,
the polling companies and astrologers
all agreed Kerry would win. His chart was simply more
favorable than Bush's. In this case, both Dasas and transits
were analyzed, but the conclusion was wrong. It shouldn't have
been, and we may learn, soon or some months from now, that Bush
again stole the election.

American history
summaries spotlight the election of 1884 (during the first Moon
cycle) because it completely abandoned fairness and civility for
dirty tricks and low blows. Regardless of whether Grover
Cleveland stole the election by voter fraud, his tactics, and those
of his supporters, were so despicable that historians agree the
campaign was an unfair contest. This repeated in the 2000 and
2004 elections. Recall the Swift
Boat Veterans For Truth attack
on John Kerry, which although proven to be all lies and distor-
tions, cast sufficient doubt on his hero's war record to cost him
substantial support. That Kerry lost the election by rejecting
getting down in the mud
to effectively refute the personal attack, is not true, how-
ever. During the Moon's cycle, The theocratic partnership between conservative Republican businessmen and puritanical Christians
is so potent that it overpowers both the public and democratic
checks and bal- ances. Further,
it takes unfair advantage of the cultural glue that binds together
the nation's democracy -- as described
in the first Jupiter cycle narrative, This
powerful inclination for consensus-building and and firmly bonded
partnerships is the mainstay of cooperative and conformist U.S.
culture.

These twin influences of the rapacious
Moon cycle and a cooperative culture combine to have allowed Bush to
steal the elections in 2000 and 2004.

Further, this combination of power
manipulating cooperation explains why Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and other neoconservatives have been able to
weather storms which would have broken administrations during other
planetary cycles. Recall that in the November
3 Celestial Wheel I stated, ...as
Pat Robertson recently told Paula Zahn on CNN (paraphrased), "Bush
is blessed by God. His mistakes don't matter."
What that statement actually
means is that those folks are so powerful during the Moon cycle, the
natural consequences of their actions don't operate. Just
considering the prisoner abuse scandal, which con- tinues, they
brush it off as though it didn't matter. They even appointed
the author of the absolutely illegal and immoral policy, Alberto
Gonzales, to the post of Attorney General -- the nation's
highest law enforce- ment officer. Is anyone but me
incredulous at this gall? Clearly, many are, but also clearly,
no group or institution (Congress or the courts) is willing, or has
been thus far able, to rebuff that audacity.

Note: It should be no surprise that mystically fear-inspiring eighth house Rahu and Mercury
were sub-cycles during the last two presidential elections -- Rahu from 5/1/2000 to 10/31/ 2001 and Mercury from 9/30/2004 to 3/1/2006.

Manipulating a mystically-inspired fearfulness by demonizing real people and groups is extremely clever manipulation. It assures a docile
public.Maureen Dowd said it best recently in quoting her brother, ...there are all sorts of people of faith that place moral values over personal freedoms.

Conclusions There is another analytical tool
which should be reviewed, for it gives insight into these two Moon
cycles. The May 24, 2004 Forecast, #52
The Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction -- A New Twenty Year Era, applied
the Vedic Astrology concept that Jupiter and Saturn, the planets of
social evolution, conjoin every twenty years to set-up a new twenty
year era. The current Jupiter/Saturn era began in May of 2000
in Aries. Below are summary quotes of the twenty year cycle
ending in 2020.

With the weak positions of Jupiter and Saturn and the dual
Ascendants, uncer- tainty and change must be bywords
for the first twenty years of the new Millennium.
Although this era has been characterized so far by
terrorism, invasions and a reces- sion, the difficult
beginning does not necessarily characterize the entire era.
In fact, the chart's complexity,
power and adaptability
increase free will and promote change. The chart does
not bind humanity to a twenty year violent struggle but
rather empowers humanity to overcome the difficult
circumstances in which we find our- selves. A linchpin
factor for the new millennium twenty year era is that a weak
Saturn is disorganized and lacks structure, which indicates
a breakdown of existing struct- ures and the need to
reorganize.

...Breakdown here does not mean
societal ruin, like the Dark Ages following the fall of the
Roman Empire. Rather, the ongoing process of
globalization is breaking down national borders and thereby
the concept of nation states, upon which people identify and
governments operate.

In
the U.S. chart, the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in Aries is the fifth
house, signifying government, which confirms the prediction.The imperial America posture of the
neoconservatives is thereby diametrically opposed to this irresistible
globalization process and therefore must fail.

By comparison, the April 18, 1881 Jupiter Saturn conjunction, during
the first Moon cycle, was also in Aries. However, in that
chart, the Sun and Venus join Jupiter and Saturn in Aries.
Since again this is the U.S. chart's fifth house of government,
those governing gained incredible power. This made the first
Moon cycle's Gilded Age's theocracy as irresistible as this second
Moon cycle's globalization cannot be stopped.

Events during the last four years encourage this conclusion.
America's imperialism is not just a continuing failure, notably in
Iraq, but it is also resisted globally. No matter how powerful
the U.S. may be, or believe itself to be, five percent of the
world's population cannot dominate for long the other
ninety-five percent. America's military is already stretching
to the breaking point, and Bush's fiscal policies are bankrupting
the economy. I have predicted many times that Iraq, Bush's great
misadventure, will cause his
downfall.

Following the historical pattern of America's planetary
cycles, the abusive ten year Moon cycle is followed by
discordant Mars' seven year cycle of protests and economic
failure (depression) -- 2009 through 2015. Then the
eight- een year Rahu cycle cuts in, restoring liberty as it
has twice before -- first during the nation's birth and second
during the earl twentieth century's Progressive Era.

I am not suggesting we
can sit idly by, waiting for our democracy to be rescued by
Bush's failures and international pressures. While these
influences must operate, they do not exclude our free will,
nor our karma of personal
respons- ibility.
This Forecast listed
five occasions in our nation's history how,Imbalances and inequality among groups stimulate conflicts to reintegrate the culture along shared democratic values.

We are not the downtrodden, uneducated and immigrant dominated
America of the 1880s. As also stated in the December
10 Celestial Wheel, We are: the
largest age group, the most educated, the most spiritually
conscious, most experienced at protest and most motivated to protect
our young adult children and protect ourselves in our coming old
age. We also have the internet, which I believe to be an
emerged mass consciousness that can be our sword for peace and
equality. We aren't wimps, unless we fail to heed our inner-voice
call to spiritual citizenship.

Perhaps we will, sooner than we
could believe, thank our nation's first ally, France, for again
being a friend to our people. As the world's second oldest
democracy and a former colonial power, the French are in a unique
position to resist Bush and thereby help America regain its
liberty. Watch the news reports. It's obvious France is
the major antagonist to America's neoconservative bullies. We
would be wise to follow France's lead, take heart in their bravery
and continue our tradition of protest.

Future
Forecasts will built upon this foundation of understanding the
United States chart.

Live free or Diebold.

Copyright 1999-- 2004 Doug Riemer

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